SF patch #462296: Add attributes to os.stat results; by Nick Mathewson.
This is a big one, touching lots of files. Some of the platforms
aren't tested yet. Briefly, this changes the return value of the
os/posix functions stat(), fstat(), statvfs(), fstatvfs(), and the
time functions localtime(), gmtime(), and strptime() from tuples into
pseudo-sequences. When accessed as a sequence, they behave exactly as
before. But they also have attributes like st_mtime or tm_year. The
stat return value, moreover, has a few platform-specific attributes
that are not available through the sequence interface (because
everybody expects the sequence to have a fixed length, these couldn't
be added there). If your platform's struct stat doesn't define
st_blksize, st_blocks or st_rdev, they won't be accessible from Python
either.
(Still missing is a documentation update.)
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index b9bbeb5..5cb7b31 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@
Objects/rangeobject.o \
Objects/sliceobject.o \
Objects/stringobject.o \
+ Objects/structseq.o \
Objects/tupleobject.o \
Objects/typeobject.o \
Objects/weakrefobject.o \
@@ -465,6 +466,7 @@
Include/rangeobject.h \
Include/sliceobject.h \
Include/stringobject.h \
+ Include/structseq.h \
Include/structmember.h \
Include/symtable.h \
Include/sysmodule.h \